Lyceum

Quick meaning: Lyceum is a noun meaning (US, historical) A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée.

Meaning

(US, historical) A school, especially European, at a stage between elementary school and college, a lycée.

More Meanings

1. An association for literary improvement.
2. (historical) A public hall designed for lectures, readings, or concerts.

Example Sentences

We burst out laughing. She told me that one of her teachers at the "lyceum" used to say that whenever any of the students got up to anything.

At a lyceum, not long since, I felt that the lecturer had chosen a theme too foreign to himself, and so failed to interest me as much as he might have done.

In the autumn he was to return home; his family - composed, as Rowland knew, of a father, who was a cashier in a bank, and five unmarried sisters, one of whom gave lyceum lectures on woman's rights, the whole resident at Buffalo, N.Y. - had been writing him peremptory letters and appealing to him as son, brother and fellow-citizen.

Word Forms

• lyceums
• lycea

Synonyms for lyceum

Depending on context, synonyms include gymnasium, lycee.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lycee, gymnasium, college, institute, unhoused, school.

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